If you’re in the market for a Foucault teeshirt or baseball cap or a mug, have a look at this page on the Zazzle site.
Zazzle is an American site which has a number of mirror sites around the world. I have linked to the Australian one. Still selling in 2025
Munro, I. (2011), The Management of Circulations: Biopolitical Variations after Foucault. International Journal of Management Reviews. August
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2011.00320.x
Abstract
This paper provides a review of the reception of Foucault’s later work on biopolitics within management and organization studies and contrasts this with the reception of these ideas in sister fields of research in the social sciences. In his later work, Foucault developed original conceptions of power, including ‘biopolitics’, ‘the apparatus of security’ and ‘neo-liberal governmentality’, which marked a departure from his conception of disciplinary power. This paper explores these concepts and elaborates the implications of these ideas for management studies. The structure of this argument is divided as follows. The first section outlines Foucault’s concept of biopolitics and neo-liberal governmentality, distinguishing these systems of control clearly from the concept of disciplinary power. The second section then undertakes a synthesis and evaluation of the extent to which these ideas have been developed within the field of management and organization studies. The final section provides a discussion of how these concepts have been used within other social sciences, distinguishing between three key approaches to their development in terms of: (a) the concept of governmentality; (b) the concept of immaterial labour; and (c) the concept of biocapital. Based on this analysis, a framework is developed which can serve as a basis for future research into the significance of these new biopolitical systems of control for management studies.
Alexandre Macmillan, Michel Foucault’s Techniques of the Self and the Christian Politics of Obedience, Theory, Culture & Society July 2011 vol. 28 no. 4 3-25
https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411405348
Abstract
Foucault repeatedly argued that his work on techniques of the self were not a denial of his previous work on 18th- and 19th-century Europe, but a different way to make our present intelligible. Although Foucault explicitly associated modern techniques of the self with the Christian model, he never considered Christian techniques of the self in a comprehensive manner. The recent publication of his last two lectures at the Collège de France in 1983 and 1984 seems to fill this gap. Christian techniques of the self are characterized by an ascetic of obedience, and are considered as antithetical to ethical, parrhesiastic techniques of the self. Foucault’s detailed analysis of Sophocles’ Oedipus and Euripides’ Ion in these lectures also provides valuable insights into the rationality that presides over the modern techniques of the self, and the logic that animates the Christian politics of obedience.
Michael Dillon and Andrew W Neal (Eds.), Foucault on Politics, Security and War. Palgrave Macmillan. January 2011.
Description
This diverse collection of essays is the first to specifically engage Michel Foucault on questions of politics, security and war. It is also the first to take up the provocations found in Michel Foucault’s recently published Collège de France lectures, particularly Society Must Be Defended, Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics. The contributors reassess the way Foucault worked experimentally and in collaboration and dialogue with others. In so doing, the essays pursue lines of enquiry that Foucault briefly extolled but did not exhaust, and take him in directions that he could not have foreseen, including the War on Terror, risk, biosecurity and biopolitics, AIDS, racial and ethnic conflict, and the critique of law. Foucault on Politics, Security and War is an essential contribution to Foucault scholarship and also poses wider challenges to political theory, international relations, security studies and legal theory.
Contents
Introduction; M.Dillon & A.W.Neal
PART I: SITUATING FOUCAULT
Strategies for Waging Peace: Foucault as Collaborateur; S.Elden
PART II: POLITICS, SOVEREIGNTY, VIOLENCE
Goodbye War on Terror? Foucault and Butler on Discourses of Law, War and Exceptionalism; A.W.Neal
Life Struggles: War, Discipline, and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault; J.Reid
Security: A Field Left Fallow; D.Bigo
Revisiting Franco’s Death: Life and Death and Bio-Political Governmentality; P.Palladino
PART III: BIOS, NOMOS, RACE
Law Versus History: Foucault’s Genealogy of Modern Sovereignty; M.Valverde
The Politics of Death: Race War, Bio-Power and AIDS in the Post-Apartheid; D.Fassin
Security, Race, and War; M.Dillon
Review on LSE blog Added 26 Feb 2013
You can find audio files of some of Foucault’s lectures posted on UbuWeb. See Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies for some corrections on the details listed on Ubuweb
Truth & Subjectivity: Howison Lectures, UC Berkeley (1980, English)
4 lectures
The Culture Of The Self, Berkley Lectures (1983)
3 Lectures
These lectures by Foucault held at U.C. Berkeley on April 12th & 19th, 1983 April, was one of his last major public appearances in the United States. The three tracks are 40-60 minutes long.
L’herméneutique Du Sujet, Le Courage De La Vérité (1980s)
Foucault was recorded by students during the seminar and then the audio file was rebroadcast by Radio France.
11 lectures from Michel Foucault (1966, French)
Contestation du reel
Decoupages singuliers du temps
Juxtaposition d’espaces incompatibles
Le corps et ses resources propres
Le corps, acteur principal …
Les contre espaces
Les utopies qui effacent le corps
L’héterotopologie
Mon corps est …ailleurs
Mon corps, utopie impitoyable
Systemes d’ouverture
Thomas Lemke, Critique and Experience in Foucault, Theory, Culture & Society, July 2011 vol. 28 no. 4 26-48
https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411404907
Abstract
It is widely known that by the end of the 1970s, Foucault had begun to refer to ‘experience’ to account for his intellectual trajectory and to redirect the work on The History of Sexuality. However, the interest in experience also decisively shaped Foucault’s analysis of the ‘critical attitude’ that he explicitly started to address at about the same time. The article argues that Foucault’s notion of critique is informed by a specific reading and understanding of ‘experience’. Experience is conceived of as dominant structure and transformative force, as existing background of practices and transcending event, as the object of theoretical inquiry and the objective of moving beyond historical limits. Foucault defines experience as a dynamic interplay between games of truth, forms of power and relations to the self. Accordingly, the Foucauldian account of critique is characterized by three aspects: the activity of problematization, the art of voluntary insubordination, and the audacity to expose one’s own status as a subject. While the first section of the article briefly reconstructs the trajectory of ‘experience’ in Foucault’s work from the 1960s to the 1980s, the main part discusses the dimensions and implications of this ‘experimental’ critique.
From Stuart Elden’s blog
Radical Foucault – An International Conference
September 8 & 9, 2011. 9.30am – 6.30pm
University of East London
The Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London is pleased to announce that registration is now open for Radical Foucault, a two day conference which will re-assess Foucault’s contribution to radical thought and the application of his ideas to contemporary politics. What does it mean to draw on Foucault as a resource for radical politics, and how are we to understand the politics which implicitly informs his work?
Keynote speakers:
Stuart Elden, Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University.
Mark Kelly, Lecturer in Philosophy, Middlesex University.
David Macey, Special Professor in Translation, University of Nottingham
Anne Schwan, Lecturer in English Literature, Edinburgh Napier University
Stephen Shapiro, Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick University.
Couze Venn, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Theory at the Theory, Culture & Society Centre, Nottingham Trent University and Managing Editor and Review Editor of Theory, Culture & Society.
Two Days: £120
One Day: £70
To register, please go to the Centre for Cultural Studies site
Please note that registration includes lunches and other refreshments during the conference, but not accommodation or evening meals. We will plan a dinner for the Thursday evening nearer the time and will contact all delegates to invite them to take part, but payment for this will be organised separately.
The conference will take place in the East Building, University of East London, Docklands Campus, London, E16 2RD.
If you need information about accommodation near the campus, then the easiest place to find it is here (the Excel conference centre is very near to the campus), but we would also recommend searching online for accommodation in more central parts of town if that is your preference (the journey from central London to the campus normally takes 40-60 minutes).
Full programme details will be published shortly.
Brisbane Foucault Reading Group
Time: 12-2pm every Tuesday fortnight starting 9 August.
Venue: R614 (the top floor of the library) at Kelvin Grove campus, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Aims of the group
The aim of this group is to provide an informal setting to read and discuss the work of French theorist Michel Foucault. Foucault’s work is used widely across an enormous range of theoretical and applied disciplines. This group is designed for both postgraduate students and academics from any discipline who would like the opportunity to clarify Foucault’s ideas and develop applications in a group setting. There will be set texts for participants to read before each session.
Convenor
Clare O’Farrell is the author of two books on Foucault. She has also edited a book on his work, was a founding editor of the international peer reviewed online journal Foucault Studies and runs a large website on Foucault. She is founder and convenor of the AARE Poststructual Theory Special Interest Group. She runs a blog with occasional Foucault content as well as the Foucault News blog.
Dates of meetings
9, 23 August,
6, 20 September
4, 18 October
11 October – will be a session for people who would like to present work in progress
Reading for this semester
A systematic reading of Foucault’s most recent publication of lectures in English will be undertaken this semester:
Michel Foucault, (2011). The Courage of Truth. Lectures at the Collège de France 1983- 1984. Tr. Graham Burchell. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Colóquio Internacional Kant
22 de agosto de 2011
Auditório 106 IFCS/UFRJ
Brasil
11:00 – Roberto Nigro – (Institut für Theorie, Zürcher Hochshule der Künst) – La critique de l’anthropologie philosophique comme enjeu majeur pour repenser le politique
(comunicação com tradução simultânea)
12:00 – Almoço
14:00 – Daniel Omar Perez – (PUC-PR) – Michel Foucault como kantiano
14:30 – Guilherme Castelo Branco – (UFRJ) – A analítica da finitude
15:00 – Giovana Temple – ( UFRB) – Foucault, o acontecimento e os limites da razão kantiana
15:30 – Intervalo
16:00 – Luiz Celso Pinho – (UFRRJ) – Do bom uso da liberdade em Kant e Foucault
16:30 – José Luís Câmara Leme – (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) – O poder pastoral, a revolução e a economia do entusiasmo segundo Kant e Foucault
Organizadores Guilherme Castelo Branco(UFRJ) / Daniel Omar Perez(PUC-PR)
Comissão Científica
Guilherme Castelo Branco (UFRJ) / Daniel Omar Perez(PUC-PR) / Diogo Sardinha (Collège International de Philosophie)
Realização
Laboratório de Filosofia Contemporânea da UFRJ Financiamento – CAPES-FAPERJ Apoio – PPGF-UFRJ e PPGF-PUC-PR
Endereço do IFCS : Largo de São Francisco nº 1 – 3º andar – Rio de Janeiro – RJ – Brasil
Inscrições : castelobranco ifcs.ufrj.br
John Rapko (2011) ‘Enchantment and Malaise’: Michel Foucault on Manet. Review of Michel Foucault’s Manet and the Object of Painting, Artcritical. The Online magazine of arts and ideas, Sunday 31st July 2011.
In 1967 Michel Foucault obtained a contract for a book on Manet, tentatively titled La Noir et la Surface. There’s no evidence to suggest that Foucault got far in the writing of the book, but something of its most general intended features is suggested by the contract and some remarks from Foucault’s writings in the 1960s. Analogously to the treatment of ‘regimes’ of knowledge in his previous book Les Mots et les Choses (The Order of Things in English), Foucault would have treated European painting as a series of discrete regimes, where a regime is characterized by certain dominant rules: of the depiction of space; of light; of meaning; and of significance. Masaccio founded the ‘classical’ regime, which held sway until Manet. In his work on Magritte, Foucault was to write that the classical regime was governed by two principles: the unbridgeable distance between linguistic and pictorial representation; and the treatment of visual resemblance between items, say, between a visual work and a thing, as a representation, wherein the resembling mark represented, or failed to represent, the resembled thing. Contemporaneously, in a much quoted passage, Foucault claimed that Manet had done for painting what Flaubert had done for literature: where Flaubert’s work depended for its meaningfulness and semantic density upon libraries, Manet’s depended upon museums. It was not Manet’s particular references to Giorgione, Velásquez, and Goya as much as the sheer coexistence of their work in a single building that created the possibility of modern meanings.
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